Mumbai: Women's rights activist Varsha Deshpande, founder of the Dalit Mahila Vikas Mandal of India, has won the 2025 United ...

Kolhapur: Varsha Deshpande of Satara-based Dalit Mahila Vikas Mandal, which works for the upliftment of socially backward ...

The #metoo campaign also excludes Dalit women who are often victims of attacks by upper-caste Hindus and security forces, said Sujatha Gidla, a Dalit writer whose recent memoir chronicles the ...

KATHMANDU, Feb. 7 -- Dalit rights activists, who have been protesting against the local administration's passive atrocities against inter-caste married couples, have written to the ruling ...

After first calling for dignity for the marginalized low-caste community, Mevani, 35, is now demanding land for landless Dalits and has threatened a wider protest from Oct. 1.